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John mbb should be ashamed. He ushered in obama

He laid down his coat and placed palm branches on the path as 0 rode into DC. He chastised his supporters for bad-mouthing 0 and suspended his campaign very late FOR NO VALID REASON...just a fabricated reason because Palin was doing TOO good a job attracting voters and the GOPe HAD to stop THAT!

That's the way I recall events anyhow.

“Anyone who runs for president should give up His senate seat. They used to”.

In the last 68 years only one US Senator has resigned his Senate seat to run for President. here are the elections involving US Senators. I didn’t have time to look at elections prior to 1948, but I can’t remember any Senator other than Dole resigning to run.

1948. - Senator Strom Thurmond ran on a third party ticket against Truman and Dewey. He did not resign his seat.
1952 - Robert Taft ran for the GOP nomination against Eisenhower. He did not resign his Senate seat.
1960 - JFK and LBJ competed for the Democrat nomination. Neither resigned their Senate seats. JFK did not resign his Senate seAt during the general election.
1964 -Senator Barry Goldwater did not resign his Senate seat to run against LBJ in the general election.
1968 - A number of Democrat Senators vied for the nomination including RFK and Gene McCarthy. None resigned their Senate seat.
1972 - Senator George McGovern did not resign his seat to run against Richard Nixon.
1996 - Senator Bob Dole did resign his Senate seat to run against Bill Clinton.
2004 - John Kerry did not resign his Senate seat to run against GW Bush.
2008 - McCain and Obama were both US Senators. Neither resigned their seats to run.
2016 - none of the US Senators running for President have indicated they will resign from the Senate if they get their party’s nomination for President

The tradition has been that politicians keep their jobs when running for President. Senators, governors, representatives, attorneys, and businessmen keep their jobs during the campaign in case they lose..